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...heroine . . . though pretty, is not a traveling salesman's idea of Venus. Hers is an interesting face, not a vacant one. . . . Her hair looks as if she could have brushed and combed it herself, and not as if it were her habit to have a permanent after every cigaret. She gets along . . . nicely . . . without mink coats, a swan bed, a custom-built Cadillac, a costly and always unspotted negligee in which to help her butler do the housework. . . . This willingness to keep its expenses scaled to life's facts rather than its fantasies is ... what distinguishes the entire...
...voyage to Venus, for example, the space ship would start at 8 miles per second in the direction opposite to the motion of the earth (see diagram) * Since the earth moves at 18½ miles per second, the space ship's net forward motion would be 10½ miles per second (18½; minus 8 miles per sec.). This speed is too slow...
keep the glider in the earth's orbit, so the great pull of the sun would make it spiral inward toward the orbit of Venus...
...voyage would have to start at exactly the right moment, so that Venus would be on hand to meet the space ship. If the timing was wrong, the space ship would miss Venus, spiral toward the sun, and circle around it forever...
...gliding, only cheaters use power. But Professor Herrick believes that real space ships will use their power in spurts to correct their courses and climb steep gravitational grades. He does not hanker to make any voyages himself but he has thought deeply on the subject. "On a voyage to Venus," he says, "we should take both sexes, if we plan to do any colonizing...